VBrick Systems is the leading provider of digital video solutions for education, government, business, and healthcare applications. The products are used for distance learning, TV and news distribution, surveillance, event broadcasts, and training. VBrick's video delivery solutions offer many benefits including improved education, higher productivity, emergency response preparedness, and lower communications costs.

VBrick's EtherneTV has revolutionized the capture, delivery, storage and management of video over local area networks and the Internet. EtherneTV is an enterprise-wide solution composed of a set of scalable, industrial strength, network-aware appliances that allows organizations to build a video infrastructure on top of any existing IP network.

EtherneTV supports the most widely deployed digital video formats, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and now Windows Media.  The EtherneTV architecture is unique in its ability to allow organizations to choose "the right technology for the right application" by drawing on the advantages of each technology.  At the same time, EtherneTV presents clean and simple interfaces to end users, making the system extremely easy to use.

The components of EtherneTV include:

• Encoding Appliances - Captures a video source, digitizes and compresses the video signal, and delivers it over an IP network
• Video on Demand Servers - Stores and sends previously recorded video over the network on demand
• Media Control Server Suite - Web-based management software to configure, schedule, secure, and control video assets and operations
• Decoding Appliances and Software - Decompresses the video signal for display on PCs, Macs, PDAs, and TVs

This diagram shows how these VBrick streaming & media archival components fit together to provide a comprehensive media streaming and archival solution. VBrick solutions must be custom configured by an SKC engineer. Please contact your SKC Account Executive for a custom quote.